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Re: Gay Panic: It’s Not Going to Stop

dymsum — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:09:36 -0000

That is RIDICULOUS.

Re: 10 Anti-Gay Hate Crimes in 11 Days — UPDATED!

dymsum — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:51:00 -0000

Unfortunately, there were two additional incidents on Long Island during that period, Matt.

Second degree aggravated harassment (which indicates bias) in Mastic Beach, NY - 3-on-1 attack committed against a lesbian who was taking pictures of her neighbor's dog. One of the attackers told her friends who were kicking/punching the victim something to the effect of "fucking rip the fucking queer's eyes out." As of yesterday, Suffolk County police were treating it as a hate/bias crime. http://www.newsday.com/news...

Assault as a hate crime, and aggravated harassment in Central Islip, NY - 1-on-3 attack, very large man started yelling slurs at three men walking down the street at 1:15am (around the same time that Leslie Mora was attacked), then started beating on two of them. http://www.longislandpress....

That makes nine incidents (that we know of) between June 19 and June 30. Five were in New York (either NYC or Long Island), one in California, one in Nebraska, one in Texas, one in the UK.

Of the ten victims, seven were gay men, two were lesbians, one was a transwoman.

One man is dead, nine other people were seriously injured, enough so that they all ended up in the hospital for some period of time, and - as we know - some are still there.

In six of the nine incidents, it involved multiples against one. A minimum of 23 people were involved (although there may have been as many as 27) in attacking ten people.

All of this is... disgusting. What is wrong with this fucking world, Matt? :-P

Re: Fort Worth Gay Bar raided -- on 40th anniversary of Stonewall

dymsum — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:42:03 -0000

It was actually right outside Houston, which is a reasonable distance from Fort Worth...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: Fort Worth Gay Bar raided -- on 40th anniversary of Stonewall

dymsum — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:28:51 -0000

Oops, the link didn't show up. It's http://dym-sum.com/2009/06/...

Re: Fort Worth Gay Bar raided -- on 40th anniversary of Stonewall

dymsum — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:27:37 -0000

I've been following this since about 3pm, and it's only gotten more disturbing with each subsequent story, eyewitness testimony, or report. Some of those folks were still in jail this evening, according to one person. And the police report almost 100% contradicts what everyone else - drunk or sober - said happened.

There were several edits over the course of the afternoon and evening, so I apologize if it's mildly choppy, but my blog covered every unfortunate detail from early reports to later statements. Even worse, the critically injured party that's been mentioned is in pretty rough shape. No idea if the cops are going to have to answer to a death related to their excessive brutality or what.